Thursday, April 17, 2008

The never-ending adventure of Spring Cleaning has turned up a large smile over a small ball of yarn :)

Now I can fix something that’s been bugging me for a long, long time.

One of my very favorite sweaters (Shirley Paden, Vogue Magazine Fall 2002) has been lanquishing in the closet for much too long. It’s made from Filatura di Crosa 501 and I have enough to make a little change…

Problem?

For a reason not remembered or apparent, I went with a zipper. A very pretty fuschia zipper but in the end, its stiff tape made the thing impossible to wear. Not only was it uncomfortable, when seated, the tape made something that can only be referred to as a third breast between and slightly under my own dynamic duo…

Now I love my zipped sweaters! But all but this one have two-way zippers, so one can manage the way the garment bulges or give the girls some air or just make a nice small connection along the front instead of a zipped-up-tight little lock-down.

My ode to Spring: rip the zip(per) out and do it the old-fashioned way: Buttons.

Did you know? “… that the left-side buttons on women’s clothes may have been intended to facilitate nursing an infant on the side closest to the woman’s heart…men’s coats were designed to make it easier for them to unbutton their coats with their left hand while drawing their swords with their right.”

Oh, how I miss Filatura di Crosa 501! This pink sweater is a perfect example of a good marriage between yarn and pattern, too. I’m sure you’ll eliminate that errant pooching as easy as you please, ma’am.